Building on episode 45, this episodes gives you three simple tools to help you move past your inner critic and get unstuck. Three tools to help you be more creative and take action towards innovation.What You’ll Learn* Three tips to help you take action against your inner critic* How Post-It Notes can help you get unstuck* How to leverage the power of your To Do list to be more creativeResources Mentioned in This Episode* Post-it Notes* Scrivener* David Allen’s Getting Things Done* Climer Cards* Episode 22: Creativity Boosters* Episode 24: How to Use Climer Cards to Increase CreativityThe Weekly ChallengePick one of the recommended tools and try them out this week. If you are not sure which one to start with, use Post-It Notes and see how they help you.TranscriptFeel like reading instead of listening? Download the PDF Transcript or read it below. Enjoy! Transcript for Episode #046: How to Take Action Against Your Inner CriticAmy Climer: Welcome to the Deliberate Creative Podcast Episode 46. Today’s episode is about how to take action against your inner critic. Last week, I talked about how to say “no” to your inner critic and this episode is basically part two to that. I realized after I recorded last week’s episode that the advice is really about mindset and how to shift your thinking in order to say “no” to your inner critic. Today, I want to talk specifically about some of the things you can do. Sometimes even though you know you need to ignore your inner critic, and maybe your mindset is starting to shift and you are starting to be more open, I want to talk about what you actually do about it. I am going to give you a couple of examples of situations that I have been in in the last couple of months where I have gotten stuck and my inner critic was getting some airplay, I guess you could say, in my head. My inner critic was being more vocal and it was preventing me from moving forward. Many of you have heard me talk in previous episodes about my dissertation, which I am very excited to say is pretty much done. In the process of writing, there were definitely times where I was stuck. The whole thing is about 40,000 words, it’s about 150 pages double spaced, so it is fairly long and it is a lot and there is a lot that goes into it. And almost every single time that I was stuck, it was because I did not know what to say or I could not quite figure out how to get everything organized. Tips to help you take action against your inner critic [Using Post-It Notes For me, the most helpful tool was using Post-It Notes. Seriously, I think Post-It Notes are one of the best creativity tools. I really should probably invest in some stock in 3M. I love Post-It Notes. They are brilliant. There was something, for me anyway, about getting away from the computer, just something about these little pieces of paper. I would generally try to use markers so I could see the writing, to make the writing very bold and visible across the room.